Open-source models remain viable as distillation fears dismissed

Developer gnukeith argues that open-source models will not decline even if US labs restrict distillation, since training data can be gathered in many ways and 95% of use cases do not require SOTA models.

2026-11-12 ~ 2026-11-12 · 2 related posts

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